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Israel Tops Birth Rate in OECD

Tuesday, 25 June 2024 | Israel has the highest fertility rate among a group of 38 industrialized nations in which births have dropped by more than half over the past 50 years, according to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]. The total fertility rate has dropped to 1.5 per

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Report: Biden Administration No Longer Fast-tracking Arms to Israel

Monday, 24 June 2024 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed “hope” that the US will “resolve” issues involving weapons shipments to the Jewish state soon, but a new report and claims from a US Senator indicate that those weapons are no longer being fast-tracked on an emergency basis. After referencing four months

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The IDF on Track to Dismantle Hamas’s Last Brigade in Rafah

Monday, 24 June 2024 | The Israel Defense Forces [IDF] is pursuing a phased approach in its ongoing offensive against Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah, Gaza. By dividing Rafah into sub-areas and deploying a single division—the 162nd—rather than two, the IDF and the Israeli Cabinet have taken a slower path, but one that has avoided

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Displaced Israeli Children Face the New School Year

Monday, 24 June 2024 | Thousands of students in northern Israel were evacuated from their homes that were within reach of rockets fired from Lebanon. Others who were not evacuated have spent months studying under the threat of rocket attacks and interrupting their studies while running to protected areas during rocket alert sirens. In both

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A First-of-its-kind Quantum Computing Center Opens in Israel

Monday, 24 June 2024 | Israel must urgently prepare to acquire quantum computers and supercomputers, as global powers might impose restrictions on selling such advanced technology to Israel, the Israeli company Quantum Machines warns. This is not necessarily an anti-Israel policy but rather a competitive struggle between tech superpowers. Israel could also find itself deprived

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Iran Surges Ahead with Nuclear Program, Tripling its Capacity to Enrich Uranium

Thursday, 20 June 2024 | Iran has embarked on a massive expansion operation at its Fordow uranium enrichment facility, the most fortified nuclear site in its arsenal, the Washington Post reported Wednesday evening. This development could potentially triple or even quadruple the production of enriched uranium at Fordow, providing Iran with new avenues to rapidly

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Nasrallah Threatens Cyprus, Invasion of the Galilee

Thursday, 20 June 2024 | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened an invasion of Israel’s Galilee region and an attack on Cyprus during a televised address on Wednesday concerning the terror group’s war against the Jewish state. It marked the first time that the Iranian proxy steeped in Lebanon has directly threatened the Eastern Mediterranean island

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The Gaza Famine that Wasn’t Is Being Used against Israel

Thursday, 20 June 2024 | Part of the accepted narrative about the war in the Gaza Strip is that the Palestinians there are enduring abject hunger. In May, the head of the UN World Food Program claimed that there was a “full-blown famine” in northern Gaza. Reports in the New York Times and the Washington

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Believe all Women…Except for Israeli October 7 Survivors

Thursday, 20 June 2024 | It’s very sad for me that people would not believe, or deny, the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas,” a former Israeli hostage told JNS. “I was with the girls in Gaza that were abused and while it’s very difficult to discuss in detail, I saw them after it happened. The

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IDF Green-lights ‘Operational Plans’ for Lebanon

Wednesday, 19 June 2024 | The Israel Defense Forces’ [IDF] Northern Command has approved operational plans for a war against the Hezbollah terrorist group in Southern Lebanon, the army announced on Tuesday. The plans were “authorized and validated” by Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Uri Gordin and Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk, who leads the military’s Operations Directorate, the IDF said. As

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